Bruce K. Misamore – Emeritus Member
Bruce is an Emeritus Member of
the Bola Club due to his recent move back to Houston. While he still has homes in Sedona and
Houston for the time being, he is spending most of his time now in Houston.
From 2001 to 2005, Bruce was
Chief Financial Officer, Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee and a
member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of Russia’s then
largest oil and gas company and the 4th largest oil producing
company in the world, YUKOS Oil Company in Moscow. YUKOS became the largest company in history
to ever be expropriated when it was taken over by Russia. Until his final retirement in 2015, Bruce
served as a director of several international companies which protected YUKOS’s
international assets from expropriation by the Russian Federation,
and led international legal actions against Russia for the expropriation
winning over $80 billion in final international verdicts, including interest,
of which Russia has paid nothing. Prior
to joining YUKOS, Bruce had been Senior Vice President – Finance and Treasurer
of PennzEnergy Company in Houston, the then largest independent oil and gas
exploration and production company based in the US. A long-time veteran of the oil and gas
industry, Bruce’s prior positions also included Vice President Finance and
Treasurer of Pennzoil Company in Houston, various senior financial management
positions with Marathon Oil Company in Houston, London and Findlay, Director of
Corporate Finance for USX Corporation in Pittsburgh, investment portfolio
management for The Toledo Trust Company and teaching in the Finance Department at
Bowling Green State University (BGSU). Bruce
was a YUKOS representative to the World Economic Forum, a member of the Boards
of the US-Russia Business Council, the International Institute for Management
Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland and the Supervisory Board of
Mazeikiu Nafta in Lithuania. He is a
member of Financial Executives International and was a member of the Board of
its Houston chapter for many years, was a member of the Board of the Houston
FEI Scholarship Foundation and was on the Board of CompUDopt, a computer
adoption agency for underprivileged children in Houston. In 2004 he was named the top CEO/CFO in
Bruce was recognized as one of Toledo’s Ten Outstanding Young Men of 1975 and is listed in the 1978 edition of Outstanding Young Men of America, as well as various editions of Who’s Who in Finance and Industry and similar publications, and has been involved in many, many civic endeavors wherever he has lived and many alumni leadership positions at BGSU.
In Sedona, Bruce is co-owner of one of Arizona’s best wineries, Javelina Leap, was the Bailli (President) of the Sedona Chaine des Rotisseurs and recognized as the best Bailli in the Far West region of the US Chaine, was a major supporter of the Sedona International Film Festival and the Sedona Historical Museum, and a member of Great Decisions, a foreign policy discussion group.
In addition to the Chaine des Rotisseurs, Bruce is a member of the International Wine and Food Society and is a Master Knight in the Knights of the Vine. In Houston, Bruce is additionally a member of the Houston World Affairs Council, a member of the Houston Council on Foreign Relations, and the Nathan Hale Society, an international affairs discussions group.